Miranda Gold.

• Author: Gallion, Mari
• Position: INSIDE ALASKA BUSINESS

Miranda Gold Corporation is pleased to announce an agreement with Alaska Hardrock Inc. to lease the Willow Creek Project, seventy-five miles north of Anchorage. The project is accessed by well-maintained roads that can be used year round. The Willow Creek Project covers the majority of the Willow Creek mining district and contains seventy-five patented lode mining claims and sixty-two State of Alaska lode mining claims for a total of approximately 8,700 acres (3,520 hectares).

The Willow Creek mining district is notable as the second largest historic lode gold producer in Alaska. Before 1950, the Willow Creek district alone had produced 5 percent of Alaska's lode gold. Recorded gold production between 1911 and 1942 (when L-208 closed non-essential mining due to WWII) was 667,000 ounces...